I'LL TELL YOU A SECRET, A Memory of Seven Summers by Anne Coleman (1st Ed. SIGNED)

Author: Anne Coleman. Published by McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, ON., 2004, 1st Edition. FLAT SIGNED by the Author. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition HARDCOVER Book and Dust Jacket. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 8.25 x 5.75 inch, 235 pages.

I'LL TELL YOU A SECRET, is a delightful, beautifully written and thoroughly engaging story of coming-of-age in the 1950s that focuses on Anne Coleman between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one, and her relationship with “Mr. MacLennan” (Canadian literary figure Hugh MacLennan), which played out in the summers in the village of North Hatley, Quebec, a picturesque resort that has been known to attract artists and writers and the upper-classes.

Independent, individualistic, sensually alert, as a young girl Anne Coleman did not fit the mould. Later, when Anne is eighteen, she leads a double life, one which follows the course of a romance with Frank, the dark, brooding European young man who has a strange hold over her, and the enigmatic Mr. MacLennan, whose own feelings for Anne suggest themselves to her in ways that are at once confusing, tantalizing, and deeply important. Along the way, the story also offers a wonderfully evocative portrayal of the 1950s, its sexual repressiveness and mores. The beautiful village of North Hatley comes alive in vivid ways. This is a unique coming-of-age story by a writer who writes sentences that cut to the bone.

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